Sometimes a trailer permeates your psyche and stay with you long after you watch it.
The first trailer for the upcoming movie “Yesterday” is one of those trailers for me.
The movie doesn’t drop in theaters until June 28, but it’s already on my “must-see” list for 2019.
The film is directed by Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Steve Jobs”) and written by Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”).
The story follows Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), a struggling musician who is hit by a bus during a global blackout.
When he wakes up from the injury, he discovers he is the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles (while playing the song “Yesterday” at a “welcome home” party). It’s as if the band never existed in Malik’s new reality.
The struggling musician goes from obscurity to stardom when he plays — and eventually records — the greatest hits from the Beatles catalog as his own original work.
The entire set of events appears to create an existential crisis in Jack — something akin to the existential crisis faced by Phil Connors in familiar/unfamiliar surroundings in 1993’s “Groundhog Day.”
There is little doubt the movie will be schmaltzy and sweet. We need more of that at the box office.
The lovely Lily James (“Baby Driver”) plays Ellie, Malik’s down-to-earth gal pal. She’s wearing a denim dress in the trailer, so it’s assured that the two will end up together at the end of the movie.
The entire vibe of the trailer is terrific. Check it out:
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